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Senator Sizzle

If Bill Clinton is right that the choice of a running mate is any candidate's first "Presidential" decision, then John Kerry's selection of John Edwards is a disappointment.

Granted that the 51-year-old North Carolina Senator is a media favorite and at least for a while will fire up the Democratic base. The former trial lawyer can grab and hold a crowd, and he brings vigor and charisma to a ticket that needs both. Perhaps in that sense Mr. Kerry is addressing a weakness that he perceives in his own candidacy -- a...